Read about the film ‘TO TOKYO’ directed by Caspar Seale Jones staring Florence Kosky & Emily Seale Jones

‘TO TOKYO’ has been distributed in the UK by LionsGate on iTunes, Amazon and DVD.

Now ‘TO TOKYO’ has secured international distribution with Gravitas and the first stage of international distribution is an iTunes Pre-Release in North American.

We have to sell pre-sales for iTunes to promote our film on the USA Canada iTunes.

How well the film performs on iTunes will affect how it will be promoted around the world, so it’s vital it does well.

If you live in the USA or Canada or have family and friends who do, if you could buy ‘TO TOKYO’ from the iTunes store and ask people who you know in America to Pre-Order the film on iTunes.

All you have to do is go onto your iTunes Store and type in ‘To Tokyo’ and then click on our film and buy the pre- order.

That’s it, so simple and easy and safe.

Here is the iTunes link: http://apple.co/3bL5WcV

WEBSITE:
https://www.totokyofilm.com

TRAILER LINK:
https://vimeo.com/351612571

LOGLINE:
An eerie girl hiding from her monstrous Step-father; finds herself in the arms of a real monster. She has four nights to Conquer them both.

SYNOPSIS:
In an ancient Japanese village (filmed on location) lurks a silent, strange, English girl named Alice. Alice is hiding from her monstrous Step-father when an actual Monster drags her into the diverse, beautiful, wilderness of her traumatised mind.(filmed on location in South Africa) Here she finds herself face to face with her inner demons that threaten to consume her. With her mind on the line, Alice has four nights to traverse the dreamscape, confront her inner demon, and make it to the neon, metropolis: TOKYO! Where she will have to face all the other monsters in her life if she wants to heal her family.

PRODUCTION:

To Tokyo’ is a British production filmed in Japan, South Africa and the UK.

Post-production Editing and Picture grading was done in South Africa

Dialogue Foley and SFX was done in Los Angeles

Music and final sound Mix completed in London.

Starring two emerging talents, Emily Seale-Jones and Florence Kosky, TO TOKYO is Caspar Seale-Jones’ debut feature film.

GENRE:
Psychological Thriller / Horror

RUNTIME:
01:14:21 / 74 min 21 sec

SELLING POINTS:
TO TOKYO is a psychological thriller set in Japan with a mesmerising strong central female performance.

It is beautifully photographed in a grand selection of South African ecosystems and Japanese cities.

Accompanying these stunning visuals and mesmerising Performances, is a powerful and moving score by Trevor Jones (The Last of the Mohicans, Mississippi Burning, Labyrinth, Notting Hill, Angel Heart)

FILM FESTIVAL AWARDS:
WINNER BEST FEATURE FILM
HOLLYWOOD FLORIDA FILM FESTIVAL
2019

WINNER BEST HORROR FEATURE FILM
WINTER FILM AWARDS
2019

WINNER BEST FANTASY
SHIVER
2018

WINNER BEST OF FEST
DEFY FILM FESTIVAL
2018

WINNER BEST DIRECTOR FEATURE FILM
HOLLYWOOD FLORIDA FILM FESTIVAL
2019

WINNER BEST ACTRESS-JURY
9TH DADA SAHEB PHALKE FILM FESTIVAL
2019

WINNER BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY
UNRESTRICTED VIEW FILM FESTIVAL
2018

WINNER BEST EDITING
CREATION INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL
2019

WINNER BEST SOUND DESIGN
CREATION INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL
2019

QUOTES:
Quote 1 The Guardian.
“...one of those rare… entirely off-radar British debuts that feels like a discovery… To Tokyo scores high on dreamy-bordering-on-nightmarish atmosphere… a masterclass in engrossing, show-don’t-tell film-making.”
The Guardian – Mike McCahill

Quote 2 VC Cinema
“…sparkling… cinematography and stunning locations… big visual impact… haunting music from Trevor Jones…”
VC Cinema

Quote 3 Defy Film Festival
“ …mesmerising and compelling elevated genre film… a particular strangeness… I haven’t… seen before… one long soothing nightmare.”
Billy Senese – Senior Programmer and Founder Defy Film Festival

Quote 4 Phoenix Film Festival
“quintessential Kubrick approach…very confident and capable…”
Hal Astell, 2019 Phoenix Film Festival

Quote 5 Tony’s Folio
“striking visual experience… a unique atmosphere… creating a spirit that walks with you after viewing.” Tony’s Folio

FULL GUARDIAN REVIEW:

The Guardian Mike McCahill
To Tokyo review – ‘thrilling, chilling horror in the wilderness
Caspar Seale Jones’s drama about a young woman afraid of her past is a masterclass in engrossing, show-don’t-tell film-making

Here’s one of those rare lowish-budget, entirely off-radar British debuts that feels like a discovery.

Adventurous writer-director Caspar Seale Jones has relocated a stock horror starting point – fraught young woman fleeing something abominable in her past – to Japan, which instantly gifts his frames more distinctive vistas than all those potboilers pursuing teenagers through the streets of Peterborough or Stroud.

More intriguingly, To Tokyo is in that Japanese folk-horror tradition that yielded Onibaba and Kwaidan, making merry-macabre use of a still relatively unfamiliar set of demons and ghouls.

To Tokyo scores high on dreamy-bordering-on-nightmarish atmosphere.
On learning her mother is gravely ill, Alice (Florence Kosky) passes into either a fugue state or an actual wilderness that encompasses forests, deserts and a mountainside hut where she slaps on warpaint and receives offerings of fruit and entrails from whatever dragged her there. For half its running time, To Tokyo is just Kosky, some spectacular landscapes (cinematographer Ralph Messer apparently taking notes from that visual whizz Tarsem Singh) and a properly creepy spectre.

Seale Jones makes the bold, rewarding decision not to explain a damn thing. The result is a masterclass in show-don’t-tell cinema.

Even when Alice reaches the bright lights of Tokyo, the depopulated backstreets and coldly indifferent skyscrapers are eerie and unsettling: it’s as though what came before was a dry run for the worst civilisation has to offer. Any interpretation will be yours, but there’s a fairytale logic to it, and the action is anchored by Seale Jones’s remarkably assured image-making and a performance of intense hollow-eyed persistence by Kosky.

Self-evidently a first feature – running to just 75 minutes – it nevertheless serves as a striking and effective calling card. How encouraging it is to see an emergent British film-maker reaching for the uncanny and mysterious, rather than settling for hackneyed or humdrum.’

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